A rule defining correct procedure or behaviour in a sport.

'Glover agreed that too many people who play the game do not know or understand the laws of the game.'

'His walk-off was totally without warning and against both the spirit and the laws of the game.'

'Regardless of whether or not is is true it does point to one of the unwritten laws of football: local derbies are a bit special.'

'It was up to the referee to judge whether they stayed within the laws of the game and punish them if they didn't.'

'The referee had made his mark on the match, it was now up to both sides to play the game within his interpretation of the laws.'

'Sport is a human activity and we have people, because of the laws of the game, who are able to adjudicate the game.'

'The laws of the game should be simple to understand, a test this latest incarnation sadly fails.'

'A strong figure is needed to administer the laws of the game for ninety minutes.'

A statement of fact, deduced from observation, to the effect that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present.

'Scientific laws were to be seen as agents in the implementation of this purpose in the cosmos in general and on earth in particular.'

'No, you are dealing with certain laws, scientific laws in relation to human tissues.'

'It is governed by scientific laws, and is or can be an object of discovery.'

'Electrons and atoms are not like tiny snooker balls bouncing around in accordance with Newton's laws.'

'Finally, the interrelations of event-chains is what scientific causal laws describe.'

'The third law is included in most thermodynamics texts, but is not recognised by all as a law of thermodynamics.'

'The zeroth law of thermodynamics is commonly expressed as heat flowing from hot to cold objects.'

'The barrier we are hitting is basically the barrier set by the laws of atomic physics.'

'In physics, this is the law of thermodynamics: that heat will always flow from hot to cold.'

'In 1893 Wien stated his displacement law of blackbody radiation spectra at different temperatures.'

'the first law of American corporate life is that dead wood floats'

'One of very few universally valid laws of history is the law of unintended consequences.'

'The patterns I have been discussing in this section are of course generalizations, not iron laws.'

'Struggle is the law of existence and suffering is a condition for progress.'

The body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts.

'The Old Testament is not just a book of history, law and prophecy.'

'Even when danger is not imminent, religious law may be violated to prevent the risk of future danger.'

'Traditionalists tend to be the vast majority of Muslims when it comes to the classical Islamic law.'

'Are Christians to take all the Old Testament law as applying to them?'

'Yet it takes only one sin for us to stand condemned according to God's holy law.'

'Nowhere in Scripture is the Old Testament law divided into moral/civil and ceremonial.'

'All our life we live knowing that God's justice demands satisfaction for our transgression of God's law.'

'It recognizes the Ten Commandments as eternal law and the Old Testament as Holy Writ.'

'The priest and the Levite who pass by unconcerned are the Old Testament law and prophets.'

'We know that still this Law calls us to rest from work and to worship God.'

'They would rather kill Jesus than violate the Law - a Law originally intended to help the people of Israel remain inside the covenant with God.'

'Instead he follows Jewish law for the Jews to punish them in case of crimes like theft, murders and rape or adultery.'

'The day of worship was changed from the Sabbath under the Law of Moses in the time following Jesus' death and resurrection.'

'For example, at one time the ceremonial Law of Moses required that the Jews not wear clothing of mixed threads.'

'He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given.'

'As it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.'

'During this visit, the believers from Jerusalem began to insist that the Gentile Christians in Antioch adopt all the prescriptions of the Law of Moses.'

More definitions

1. the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.

2. any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution.Compare bylaw, statute law.

3. the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their ob